Why would I want to celebrate the birthday of a narco-state?

You're right about restrictions including if the brick & mortar outfits start to perceive this type of business as a threat. The bill AB 1678, dead for this year, would have required food trucks to say at least 1,500 feet away from schools. The kids must not be distracted from visiting the nearby fast food stores.

There is no doubt that libraries will the first to take a hit as local government budgets continue their decline. The union can hasten this decline with unrealistic demands. In the end, branch libraries are doomed. Central libraries will survive if for no other reason than they have a lot of collections to manage.

Like all the still-unemployed Albertson workers.

The Sacramento Press is an example of the future of local news journalism and your contributions to its success should give you a great amount of satisfaction. Your comment "another breaking development wipes out the previous story from everyone’s ADD attention span" brought up an important point. People have a very limited amount of time for reading news and are bombarded with with too much information. The sequential nature of story presentation done by newspapers does make it difficult for the average person to do follow-up and one is typically interested in just a small percentage of the presented material. I am not entirely certain of the solution. But I suspect it will involve categorization, linking to prior reports, personal-filtering, topic-specific alerts, trusted-expert summaries and links to sources. The online newspaper that gets this formula right will dominate in the decades ahead after the dead-tree publications finally go away.

This article should have listed some of the specific changes.

The Earth's ecosystem is not an organism with an immune system. It is a complex system of competing life forms that are constantly adapting and evolving to survive a constantly changing environment.

Re: "“There might be concerns about what the survey will find" --- Or the results just might not be worth the cost of doing the study.

Now would a company send a Wally or a Dilbert to this sort of conference? I am thinking Wally. Dilbert would have an overwhelming urge to speak the obvious, and that would detract from all the sensitive togetherness at this conference.

The article says $25K or more will be saved by less setup, less administration, fewer meetings and fewer "projects" started by a commission. Since they are not going to fire anyone and the commission is doing the same amount of work, how is this going any significant amount of money? Maybe the current staff is putting in a lot over overtime that will now be unnecessary?

It is a good decision. The Calif. Attorney General should not have a veto over a vote of the people -- i.e., by refusing to defend it in court. The court has now allowed others to pick up the task when the attorney general refuses to do his job.

The vast majority of the public in Sacramento are more interested in police and fire protection than art museums and sports events. If you try to compete with those, you'll lose. Why not build a new arena the traditional way -- fundraising, gifts from big businesses and the rich, and even arena ticket surcharges? It may take five to ten years to raise the money. But if this approach had been used when all this replacing-the-arena talk started, we'd be there by now. Once the Maloofs see a realistic executing plan in place, they will likely stay put.

The acronym LGBT means Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender.

The people of Sacramento deserve only what they are willing and able to pay for. I suspect that the Community Center Theater is living on borrowed time.

SMAC supporters are wasting their time. When push comes to shove for money, retaining unionized employees will win out. They should instead be focusing on fundraising from the public and begin disconnecting themselves from dependance on that budgetary anchor known as local government.

Maybe it is time for the City of Sacramento to disband and become an unincorporated part of the County. Then the overburdened area taxpayers will have to support only one government rather than two.

So how does the city "provide" jobs? Perhaps the problem is Sacramento's anti-business attitude plus the inability of that city government to properly manage costs and plan for the future.

This article was more informative than that which appeared in the Bee.

If this type of law is not overturned in court, then expect non-resident surcharges to be added to all city services and fines.

I am guessing they are having trouble getting financing. Banks are doing less lending thanks to the higher reserve requirements from the federal government.